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Jack White review – rock’n’roll showman makes believers of us all

Touring his 2024 solo album No Name in a barnstorming gig, the former White Stripe plays fast and loose with the truth but is absolutely the real deal

He’s also stormed through Black Math, from the White Stripes’ fourth album, 2003’s Elephant, a disc recorded entirely on analogue gear at Toe Rag Studios in Homerton, Hackney, just a few miles down the road. A keen student of legends past, he has long been drawn to obfuscation and myth-making – creative strategies that go back to Bob Dylan and beyond, to blues people and showfolk of all kinds. Somewhere in the middle is Archbishop Harold Holmes, an instant classic White tune from the new album, where truth, falsehood, patter and faith are remixed to a Led Zeppelin-like swinging chug.

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